711
Views
119
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Prechemotherapy alterations in brain function in women with breast cancer

, , , , , , , , , & show all
Pages 324-331 | Received 04 Sep 2008, Accepted 10 May 2009, Published online: 29 Jul 2009

REFERENCES

  • Ahles , T. A. and Saykin , A. 2001 . Cognitive effects of standard-dose chemotherapy in patients with cancer . Cancer Investigation , 19 : 812 – 820 .
  • Ahles , T. A. , Saykin , A. J. , Furstenberg , C. T. , Cole , B. , Mott , L. A. Skalla , K. 2002 . Neuropsychologic impact of standard-dose systemic chemotherapy in long-term survivors of breast cancer and lymphoma . Journal of Clinical Oncology , 20 : 485 – 493 .
  • Ahles , T. A. , Saykin , A. J. , McDonald , B. C. , Furstenburg , C. T. , Cole , B. F. Hanscom , B. S. 2007 . Cognitive function in breast cancer patients prior to adjuvant treatment . Breast Cancer Research & Treatment , 110 : 143 – 152 .
  • Anderson-Hanley , C. , Sherman , M. L. , Riggs , R. , Agocha , V. B. and Compas , B. E. 2003 . Neuropsychological effects of treatments for adults with cancer: A meta-analysis and review of the literature . Journal of International Neuropsychology , 9 : 967 – 982 .
  • Baddeley , A. D. 1992 . Working memory . Science , 255 : 556 – 559 .
  • Barch , D. M. , Braver , T. S. , Sabb , F. W. and Noll , D. 2000 . Anterior cingulate and the monitoring of response conflict: Evidence from an fMRI study of overt verb generation . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 12 : 298 – 309 .
  • Barton , D. and Loprinzi , C. 2002 . Novel approaches to preventing chemotherapy—induced cognitive dysfunction in breast cancer: The art of the possible . Clinical Breast Cancer , 3 ( Suppl. 3 ) : S121 – S127 .
  • Brezden , C. B. , Phillips , K. A. , Abdolell , M. , Bunston , T. and Tannock , I. F. 2000 . Cognitive function in breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy . Journal of Clinical Oncology , 18 : 2695 – 2701 .
  • Cimprich , B. 1992 . Attentional fatigue following breast cancer surgery . Research in Nursing & Health , 15 : 199 – 207 .
  • Cimprich , B. 1993 . Development of an intervention to restore attention in cancer patients . Cancer Nursing , 16 : 83 – 92 .
  • Cimprich , B. 1998 . Age and extent of surgery affect attention in women treated for breast cancer . Research in Nursing & Health , 21 : 229 – 238 .
  • Cimprich , B. 1999 . Pretreatment symptom distress in women newly diagnosed with breast cancer . Cancer Nursing , 22 : 185 – 194 .
  • Cimprich , B. and Ronis , D. 2001 . Attention and symptom distress in women with and without breast cancer . Nursing Research , 50 : 86 – 94 .
  • Cimprich , B. and Ronis , D. 2003 . An environmental intervention to restore attention in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer . Cancer Nursing , 26 : 284 – 292 .
  • Cohen , J. D. , Botvinick , M. and Carter , C. S. 2000 . Anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex: Who's in control? . Nature Neuroscience , 3 : 421 – 423 .
  • Cohen , J. D. , Perlstein , W. M. , Braver , T. S. , Nystrom , L. E. , Noll , D. and Jonides , J. 1997 . Temporal dynamics of brain activation during a working memory task . Nature , 386 : 604 – 608 .
  • Corbetta , M. , Miezen , F. M. , Dobmeyer , S. , Shulman , G. L. and Peterson , S. 1991 . Selective and divided attention during visual discriminations of shape, color, and speed: Functional anatomy by positron emission tomography . Journal of Neuroscience , 11 : 2383 – 2402 .
  • D'Esposito , M. , Detre , J. , Alsop , D. , Shin , R. K. , Atlas , S. and Grossman , M. 1995 . The neural basis of the central executive system of working memory . Nature , 378 : 279 – 281 .
  • Engle , R. W. 2002 . Working memory capacity as executive attention . Current Directions in Psychological Science , 11 : 19 – 24 .
  • Ferguson , R. N. , McDonald , B. C. , Saykin , A. J. and Ahles , T. A. 2007 . Brain structure and function differences in monozygotic twins: Possible effects of breast cancer chemotherapy . Journal of Clinical Oncology , 25 : 3866 – 3870 .
  • Fiez , J. A. , Raife , E. A. , Balota , D. A. , Schwarz , J. P. , Raichlem , M. E. and Petersen , S. E. 1996 . A positron emission tomography study of the short-term maintenance of verbal information . Journal of Neuroscience , 16 : 808 – 822 .
  • Folstein , M. F. , Folstein , S. E. and McHugh , P. R. 1975 . “Mini-mental state”: A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician . Journal of Psychiatric Research , 12 : 189 – 198 .
  • Hermelink , K. , Untch , M. , Lux , M. P. , Kreienberg , R. , Beck , T. Bauerfeind , I. 2007 . Cognitive function during neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer: Results of a prospective, multicenter, longitudinal study . Cancer , 109 : 1905 – 1913 .
  • Hillary , F. G. , Genova , H. M. , Chiaravalloti , N. D. , Rypma , B. and DeLuca , J. 2006 . Prefrontal modulation of working memory performance in brain injury and disease . Human Brain Mapping , 27 : 837 – 847 .
  • Hurria , A. , Rosen , C. , Hudis , C. , Zuckerman , E. , Panageas , K. and Lachs , M. 2006 . Cognitive function of older patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer: A pilot prospective longitudinal study . Journal of the American Geriatrics Society , 54 : 925 – 931 .
  • Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies Committee on Cancer Survivorship . 2006 . From cancer patient to cancer survivor: Lost in transition , Edited by: Hewitt , M. , Greenfield , S. and Stovall , E. Washington, DC : The National Academies Press .
  • Jenkins , V. , Shilling , V. , Deutsch , G. , Bloomfield , D. , Morris , R. Allan , S. 2006 . A 3-year prospective study of the effects of adjuvant treatments on cognition in women with early stage breast cancer . British Journal of Cancer , 94 : 828 – 834 .
  • Jonides , J. , Marshuetz , C. , Smith , E. E. , Reuter-Lorenz , P. A. and Koeppe , R. A. 2000 . Age differences in behavior and PET activation reveal differences in interference resolution in verbal working memory . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 12 : 188 – 196 .
  • Jonides , J. , Smith , E. E. , Marshuetz , C. , Koeppe , R. A. and Reuter-Lorenz , P. A. 1998 . Inhibition in verbal working memory revealed by brain activation . Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences of the United States of America , 95 : 8410 – 8413 .
  • Kaplan , S. and Kaplan , R. 1982 . Environment and cognition , New York : Praeger .
  • Lezak , M. 2004 . Neuropsychological assessment , 4th , New York : Oxford University Press .
  • McAllister , T. W. , Ahles , T. A. , Saykin , A. J. , Ferguson , R. J. , McDonald , B. C. Lewis , L. D. 2004 . Cognitive effects of cytotoxic cancer chemotherapy: Predisposing risk factors and potential treatments . Current Psychiatry Reports , 6 : 364 – 371 .
  • Mesulam , M. M. 2000 . Principles of behavioral and cognitive neurology , 2nd , New York : Oxford University Press .
  • Milham , M. P. , Banich , M. T. , Webb , A. , Barad , V. , Cohen , N. J. Wszalek , T. 2001 . The relative involvement of anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortex in attentional control depends on nature of conflict . Cognitive Brain Research , 12 : 467 – 473 .
  • Nelson , J. K. , Reuter-Lorenz , P. A. , Sylvester , C.-Y. C. , Jonides , J. and Smith , E. E. 2003 . Dissociable neural mechanisms underlying response-based and familiarity-based conflict in working memory . Proceedings of the National Academy Sciences of the United States of America , 100 : 11171 – 11175 .
  • Oppenheim , A. V. , Schafer , R. W. and Buck , J. R. 1999 . Discrete time signal processing , Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall .
  • Phillips , K. A. and Bernhard , J. 2003 . Adjuvant breast cancer treatment and cognitive function: Current knowledge and research directions . Journal of the National Cancer Institute , 95 : 190 – 197 .
  • Posner , M. I. 1995 . “ Attention in cognitive neuroscience: An overview ” . In The cognitive neurosciences , Edited by: Gazzaniga , M. S. 615 – 624 . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press .
  • Posner , M. I. and Dehaene , S. 1994 . Attentional networks . Trends in Neurosciences , 17 : 75 – 79 .
  • Posner , M. I. and Snyder , C. R. 1975 . “ Attention and cognitive control ” . In Information processing and cognition , Edited by: Solso , R. L. 55 – 85 . Hillsdale, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates .
  • Reuter-Lorenz , P. A. 2002 . New visions of the aging mind and brain . Trends in Cognitive Sciences , 6 : 394 – 400 .
  • Reuter-Lorenz , P. A. and Cappell , K. 2008 . Neurocognitive aging and the compensation hypothesis . Current Directions in Psychological Science , 18 ( 3 ) : 177 – 182 .
  • Reuter-Lorenz , P. , Jonides , J. , Smith , E. , Hartley , A. , Miller , A. and Marsheutz , C. 2000 . Age differences in the frontal lateralization of verbal and spatial working memory revealed by PET . Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , 12 : 174 – 187 .
  • Reuter-Lorenz , P. A. , Marshuetz , C. , Jonides , J. and Smith , E. 2001 . Neurocognitive aging of storage and executive processes . European Journal of Cognitive Psychology , 13 : 257 – 278 .
  • Rugo , H. S. and Ahles , T. 2003 . The impact of adjuvant therapy for breast cancer on cognitive function: Current evidence and directions for research . Seminars in Oncology , 30 : 749 – 762 .
  • Sakai , K. , Rowe , J. B. and Passingham , R. E. 2002 . Active maintenance in prefrontal area 46 creates distractor-resistant memory . Nature Neuroscience , 5 : 479 – 484 .
  • Saykin , A. J. , Ahles , T. A. and McDonald , B. C. 2003 . Mechanisms of chemotherapy-induced cognitive disorders: Neuropsychological, pathophysiological, and neuroimaging perspectives . Seminars in Clinical Neuropsychiatry , 8 : 201 – 216 .
  • Schagen , S. B. , van Dam , F. S. , Muller , M. J. , Boogerd , W. , Lindeboom , J and Bruning , P. F. 1999 . Cognitive deficits after postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy for breast carcinoma . Cancer , 85 : 640 – 650 .
  • Shilling , V. , Jenkins , V. , Morris , R. , Deutsch , G. and Bloomfield , D. 2005 . The effects of adjuvant chemotherapy on cognition in women with breast cancer—preliminary results of an observational longitudinal study . Breast , 14 : 142 – 150 .
  • Smith , E. E. and Jonides , J. 1999 . Storage and executive processes in the frontal lobe . Science , 283 : 1657 – 1661 .
  • Smith , S. M. 2002 . Fast robust automated brain extraction . Human Brain Mapping , 17 : 143 – 155 .
  • Stewart , A. , Bielajew , C. , Collins , B. , Parkinson , M. and Tomiak , E. 2006 . A meta-analysis of the neuropsychological effects of adjuvant chemotherapy treatment in women treated for breast cancer . Clinical Neuropsychologist , 20 : 76 – 89 .
  • Tannock , I. F. , Ahles , T. A. , Ganz , P. A. and van Dam , F. S. 2004 . Cognitive impairment associated with chemotherapy for cancer: Report of a workshop . Journal of Clinical Oncology , 22 : 2233 – 2239 .
  • Tchen , N. , Juffs , H. G. , Downie , F. P. , Yi , Q.-L. , Hu , H. Chemerynsky , I. 2003 . Cognitive function, fatigue, and menopausal symptoms in women receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer . Journal of Clinical Oncology , 21 : 4175 – 4183 .
  • Thompson-Schill , S. L. , Jonides , J. , Marshuetz , C. , Smith , E. E. , D'Esposito , M. Kan , I. 2002 . Effects of frontal lobe damage on interference effects in working memory . Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience , 2 : 109 – 120 .
  • van Dam , F. S. , Schagen , S. B. , Muller , M. J. , Boogerd , W. , Wall , E. Droogleever Fortuyn , M. E. 1998 . Impairment of cognitive function in women receiving adjuvant treatment for high-risk breast cancer: High-dose versus standard-dose chemotherapy . Journal of the National Cancer Institute , 90 : 210 – 218 .
  • Wefel , J. S. , Lenzi , R. , Theriault , R. L. , Davis , R. and Meyers , C. 2004 . The cognitive sequelae of standard-dose adjuvant chemotherapy in women with breast carcinoma: Results of a prospective randomized longitudinal trial . Cancer , 100 : 2292 – 2299 .
  • Wefel , J. S. , Witgert , M. E. and Meyers , C. A. 2008 . Neuropsychological sequelae of non-central nervous system cancer and cancer therapy . Neuropsychology Review , 18 : 121 – 131 .
  • Wieneke , M. and Dienst , E. 1995 . Neuropsychological assessment of cognitive functioning following chemotherapy for breast cancer . Psycho-Oncology , 4 : 61 – 66 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.